For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

“Oh my gosh, he won’t even fully tell us, maybe there’s more to it,” Trump’s daughter-in-law said about the topic of the speech. Breaking News Intern Lara Trump said her father-in-law has prepared a ...

The world is full of theories of everything. The smartphone theory of everything argues that our personal devices are responsible for the rise of political polarization, anxiety, depression, and ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

As a pediatric physician, an early childhood researcher and a child development expert, I am compelled to state, in no uncertain terms: What we are witnessing is a public health crisis. This approach ...

Replication origins in eukaryotic cells initiate a single round of DNA synthesis in each cell cycle. This requires the regulated binding of several conserved initiation proteins, including CDC6/Cdc18p ...

In people destined to get Alzheimer's in their mid-40s, one protein can delay the onset of the disease by about 20 years.